Pre-Deployment Planning And Provisioning - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

Pre-deployment Planning and Provisioning

VisualRF provides the capability to plan campuses, buildings, floors, and access points prior to the
actual access point deployment. The following procedure describes the workflow:
1. Create a campus – as detailed above
2. Create a building associated with your campus – as detailed above
3. Create a floor plan for your building – as detailed above
4. Draw exterior walls
5. Manually provision access points onto floor plan
6. Automatically provision access points onto floor plan
7. Replicate floor plan vertically
8. Print BOM report
9. Export campus
Deploy production AMP and manage devices
10.
11. Import exported campus
12. Match access points
Draw exterior walls
1. Add exterior walls by clicking on the newly imported floor in the Building view
2. To toggle off wall drawing tool click on the Wall icon in the Floor Edit Tools section.
3. To move or resize the wall grab one of the end point handles (black squares with green borders).
4. To change the attenuation of a wall left-click the wall and select the appropriate building material.
5. To delete a wall left-click on the wall and select the "Delete Wall" option.
6. Once all walls are provisioned, click the Save button (floppy disk) at the bottom right of the page.
Note: There is no need to draw interior walls on a floor plan. VisualRF will automatically calculate
path loss in the interior of a building.
Figure 43. "Drawing Walls"
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